[MCN] The case of the deleted consequences

Lance Olsen lance at wildrockies.org
Sun Sep 9 20:55:32 EDT 2018


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Excerpt:"Warnings about potentially severe consequences of climate change were deleted from a Trump administration plan to weaken curbs on power plant emissions during a White House review.

"Drafts had devoted more than 500 words to highlighting the impacts -- more heat waves, intense hurricanes, heavy rainfalls, floods and water pollution -- as part of the proposal to replace Obama-era restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions. That language was left out of the Trump administration’s final analysis of the Environmental Protection Agency <https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/0219210Z:US> proposal <https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2018-08-21/trump-eases-coal-pollution-curbs-in-unwinding-more-obama-rules>, when it was unveiled Aug. 21."

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“Our results indicate that terrestrial ecosystems are highly sensitive to temperature change and suggest that, 

without major reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere, terrestrial ecosystems worldwide 

 at risk of major transformation.”

Nolan et al. Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change. Science 31 August 2018 

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“A new area of study is the field that some of us are beginning to call social traps. 
The term refers to situations in society that contain traps formally like a fish trap, 
where men or whole societies get themselves started in some direction or some 
set of relationships that later prove to be unpleasant or lethal and that they see 
no easy way to back out of or to avoid."

John Platt. Social Traps. American Psychologist, August 1973

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“Our results indicate that terrestrial ecosystems are highly sensitive to temperature change and suggest that, 

without major reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere, terrestrial ecosystems worldwide 

 at risk of major transformation.”

Nolan et al. Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change. Science 31 August 2018 

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